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Serious Error with Currency Data Type
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18/01/1999 12:40:19
Calvin Smith
Wayne Reaves Computer Systems
Macon, Georgia, United States
 
 
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Visual FoxPro
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Other
Title:
Serious Error with Currency Data Type
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00177250
Message ID:
00177250
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I have found that using currency data types results in incorrect answers for simple math operations. For example, if I have a currency value and multiply it by a decimal value it appears that foxpro converts the decimal value to a currency type before the operation rather than after the operation. Test the following on your machine:
1050.45 * .41116=431.9030
$1050.45 * .41116=431.9450

This has got to be an error and it renders currency virtually useless without doing mton conversions everywhere.

Microsoft are you going to fix this???
A problem is a problem only as long as it has a possible solution. Lacking that, it becomes a FACT!
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